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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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code generated by an AI is arguably not a “substantial portion” of the software

How do you verify that though?

And does the model need to include all of the licenses? Surely the "all copies or substantial portions" would apply to LLMs, since they literally include the source in the model as a derivative work. That's fine if it's for personal use (fair use laws apply), but if you're going to distribute it (e.g. as a centralized LLM), then you need to be very careful about how licenses are used, applied, and distributed.

So I absolutely do believe that building a broadly used model is a violation of copyright, and that's true whether it's under an open source license or not.

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 5 days ago

I agree with you, and don't really have any answers :)

[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

By comparing it to the original work.

And how will you know what original work(s) to compare it to?

[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

How do you know anything about anything an LLM generates? Presumably if you're the author you would recognize your own work?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not going to be monitoring Chinese code projects. They don't seem to care much about copyright, so they'll probably just yoink the code into proprietary projects and not care about the licenses.

What am I going to do, sue someone in China? And decompile everything that comes from China to check if my code was likely in it? That's ridiculous. If it's domestic, I probably have a chance, but not if it's in another country, and especially not one like China that doesn't seem to care about copyright.

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